When someone stands out in a crowd, it can be seen as a good thing. They are courageous, a risk taker, but most of all they are different from everyone else. One of the main concepts of a society, or in this case an organization, is that everyone works together in order to achieve common goals. When someone stands out, they will be given more attention than someone who doesn't stand out. Now this isn't always a bad thing. Maybe standing out is that thing that will gain a person a promotion, or special recognition; however, this is not the case for the whistleblower.
One whistleblower is quoted to have said, "When you blow the whistle, you become poison to the company. Your presence makes them sick" (125). The whistleblower stands out, but only as poison. The company knows that the only way a poison can grow is if it "infects" other parts of the body. In this situation the other "body-parts" are the other members of the company. As a working body, it is the companies responsibility to get rid of the poison. This is a sad story for the whistleblower because many times the whistleblower doesn't even know the path they have chosen.
A whistleblower stands out in an organization, but if they are praised for their courage, it is only in silence. The other members of the organization may morally want to stand by the whistleblower, but they don't have the drive, or motivation, of the original whistleblower. When asked, whistleblowers themselves have said that they didn't plan on blowing the whistle. In some cases it wasn't until after the whistle was blown, that they even realized what had happened.
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